Who is to Blame

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/27/mother-of-bulliedgirlpushesforantibullyinglaw.html


In class we have talked a ton about bullying. Why is there bullying: is it part of the human condition or is it due to individuals' need to exert power? Also, there was an issue about if bullying is just people being mean or if being mean was a separate issue. I am glad we are talking about bullying because as future educators, we will definitely have this as a problem in our classrooms.

As a future educator and hopefully future parent, I think that it is important to teacher a child that bullying is bad and it is good to stand up to a bully. This article is about a mom suing over her twelve year old daughter's feather and the mother is blaming two girls who supposedly bullied her daughter. I do not mean to be rude or disrespectful to the mom or her daughter, but blaming her daughter's suicide on just the two bullies is wrong.

We know that there will be bullying and we can't change that fact, but we can equip our children with tools to combat bullying. If the mom had talked to her daughter and tried to see if anything was bad at school and if the mom had built up her daughter's confidence or if the mom had talked to her daughter about bullying, then maybe this tragedy wouldn't have happened. We know that there are many victims out there, so we should talk to children openly and tell them to have the inner confidence to stand up for themselves. The blame can't always be put on the bullies, we should equip our children to battle the bullies and stand up for themselves.